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Cassell's dictionary of cookery

1892

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Presented as published in 1892. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation, not the original instructions.
Orgeat. — Blanch and pound three-quarters of a pound of sweet-almonds and thirty bitter ones -svith a table-spoonful of -water. Stir in by degrees two pints of water and three pints of milk, and strain the whole through a cloth. Dissolve half a pound of loaf sugar in a pint of water, boil, skim well, and mix with the almond water, adding two table-spoonfuls of orange- flower water and a tea-cupful of good brandy. Quince Syrup. — Grate quinces, pass the jDulp through a sieve, then set it before the fire for the juice to settle and clarify ; strain, and add a pound of sugar (boiled down) to every four ounces of juice ; remove from the fire, and when cold bottle for use. A table-spoonful of this syrup will flavour a pint of water. Rasi)berry Vinegar. — This is made by sqiieez- ing the juice of three quarts of raspberries into a quart of vinegar, and then simmering the vinegar for about a quarter of an hour with two pounds of sugar in an earthen pipkin not glazed with lead. When cold it is to be corked; and a small spoonful of this in a glassful of water makes a very cooling and refreshing di-ink. (For other ways see Raspberry VinegarRaspberry Vinegar.) ' Sherry Cobbler.- — Take some very fine and clean ice, break it into small pieces, fill a tumbler to within an inch of the top with it, put a table-spoonful of plain sji-up, capillaire, or anj' other flavoiu: — some prefer strawberry — add the quarter of the zest of a lemon and a few drops of the juice. Fill with sherrySherry Cobbler, stir it up, and let it stand for five or six minutes. Sip gently through a straw. Sodaic Powders. — Take five drachms of citric or tartaric acid, pound it fine, and divide it into twelve parts, folding each in wh ite paper. Take six drachms of carbonate of soda, pound it fine, and fold it in blue pajjer. Half fill two half- pint tumblers with water ; stir into one a ])owder from the white paper, in the other one from the blue ; when the powders are quite dis- solved pour one to the other, and perfect soda water will be instantaneously produced in its utmost perfection. Supreme Nectar. — Put into a nine-gallon cask six pounds of moist sugar, five ounces of bruised ginger, four ounces of cream of tartar, four lemons, eight ounces of yeast, and seven gallons of boiling water. Work two or three days, strain, add brandy one pintSupreme Nectar, bung very close, and in fourteen days bottle and -wire down. Tamarind Drink. — Boil three pints of water with an ounce and a half of tamarinds, three ounces of ciuTants, and two ounces of stoned raisins, till about a third has evaporated. Strain, add a bit of lemon-peelTamarind Drink, which is to be removed in half an hour, then cool. Vinegar and Water. — " It is commonly known that cold water is dangerous when used bj' SUM ( 944 ) SUP